American University Developmental

4400 Massachusettes Ave. Washington DC, 20016

Current Session

Winter 2024: January 21st to April 28th

Our winter program is FULL. You may join the waitlist using the links below.

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Class Descriptions

There are no exceptions to the age and skill requirements for each class. We apologize for the inconvenience.

Whales (6 - 10 Years Old)

Must be able to swim 25 yards of freestyle and backstroke, including the ability of rotary breathing. This class teaches detail techniques of freestyle, and backstroke, introduces basic breaststroke, and builds endurance.

Barracudas (6 - 12 Years Old)

Must be able to swim 50 yards of freestyle and backstroke, including ability of rotary breathing and kicking in balance on side and streamline. Teaches longer freestyle swimming, more advanced backstroke, and breaststroke. This class will introduce starts and turns, as well as fly kick.

Sting Rays (7 - 13 Years Old)

Must be able to swim 75 yards of freestyle and backstroke, 25 yards of breaststroke, including ability to do flip turns, and fly kick. This class works on detailed mechanics of breaststroke, butterfly, and starts.

Octopus (7 - 13 Years Old)

Must be able to swim 100 yards of freestyle and backstroke, 50 yards breaststroke, 25 yards of butterfly. This class works on longer breaststroke and backstroke, full stroke butterfly, and endurance swimming. Swimmers must be able to do laps of all 4 strokes, legal flip turns and starts, 100 IM/intervals, read a pace clock, streamline dolphin kicks off the wall.

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